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Find Your Own Fire
Originally posted by Sundipped
Not sure what you're trying to say here. Prime wrecked Red Star both times. I know the TT's had to team up to beat him.That's why I said Kon-El was an exception. There's no doubt in my mind that it most likely will happen again no matter who's writing.
Just that while you think Prime got shafted in a major way in his
Teen Titans fight with the lasso leading to his defeat, he also benefitted in a major way in the fight by inexplicably no-selling a red sun energy attack.
Maybe because he can. And Prime isn't as unbelievably more powerful as you think. Or Kon-El isn't as unbelievably weaker as you think. Kon-El is a teambuster.
Originally posted by Sundipped
You are aware of Primes incredible damage soak/invulnerability right. He laughed off a combined Guardian assault. The same kind of assault in which 1 beam was incinerating SC heralds.PG is not piercing Prime with mere hv.
I'm aware the Guardians didn't do anything but incinerate no-name Lanterns (not the SC Heralds) and got those same attacks no-sold by Cyborg Superman. Superman Prime actually yelped and then got outwrestled by one of the jobber Guardians.
Apparently the story and Superman disagree. Otherwise Superman wouldn't have chastized her for threatening to cross a line.
Originally posted by Sundipped
If you ask me, Johns went overboard with Prime being susceptible to Bart (later on). I can cope with Bart (w/speed force amp) punking Prime but TLO3W's incident was a bit too much.In a scan I showed earlier he displayed combat speed on par with 3 Flashes + Jay himself stated here that he's too strong he was helpless.
😐 Doesn't make much sense to me.
Bart being amped with the Speed Force to fight Prime is a myth. Bart exhausted the Speed Force he absorbed to just travel backwards in time. It was exhausted to such a point that he fainted and didn't wake up until after Conner fought and died. He had, at best, residual Speed Force powers that faded completely. This should be more obvious now since Bart actually has blitzed Prime four times solo. Once right before the Speedforce BFR, once when he returned in
Infinite Crisis (the instance we're speaking of), once when he returned in
Legion of 3 Worlds and, yet again, once more in
Teen Titans. Bart doesn't need an imaginary Speedforce amp to battle Prime; we know this because he definitely didn't have an amp the three other times he did it solo. While Bart hasn't demonstrated the ability to overcome him on his own, he can take him on.
Countering Flashes in one panel and then spending the rest of your encounters getting pummeled, outright defeated, or fleeing speedsters doesn't prove that Prime's speed was on par with 3 Flashes. It proves that his countering them was likely a result of him surprising them with his relative speed at first.
And using an alternate Jay Garrick who could be as slow or slower than the real Jay Garrick means very little. I think you're overgeneralizing and aggrandizing Prime's levels which end up crashing hard against the various "harsh" realities that we're discussing. None of this should be surprising or quizical.